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Modem - dial tone broken up, but voice ok
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Dial tone broken up with modem, but using the phone for voice the dfial tone is ok (& phone line runs through the modem). Using a different phone line (different number), the modem works fine (rained, new phone line, water must be shorting something out). Expanded explanation: Weird situation. New phone line in for a week. Working wonderfully with a dial-up account. It rains for a few hours, & when I go to use the computer to log into the internet, the dial tone is broken up, & also the dialing beeps that represent the numbers called are broken up too. (So I hear a dial tone for a split second, then static off, then on again, like that - incomplete tone & dialing sequence. Ok, I pick up the phone, in which the line runs through the modem, & the dial tone is ok - I can call out fine. & recieve fine. So I try the modem again & the same broken up dial tone - I cannot dial out succesfully. So I switch phone lines into the modem from my other phone line, & the modem works just fine. So it isn't the modem, right? I go through this a couple of times. Same thing. That evening the suspect phone line was ok again for the modem & dial tone & dialing, & I was online for 8 hours straight with no problems. Next day (yesterday) it rains again, & again I can't dial out with the modem on that suspect line, & again I can use the phone voice fine. So I am now using the other phone line as I write this online. The SBC guy who installed the new line is coming out later today (I know it's Sunday, but he's working). I hope the problem still exists so he can track it down, but I am pretty sure water is getting in somewhere & shorting something out (all new line in from pole to house & no interior wiring involved). *** What I want to know is: Has anyone ever heard of this happening? Why would a modem require a better connection than voice? How could a dial tone be broken up with the modem but not on the regular phone? You'd think a dial tone is a dial tone, wouldn't you? Thanks for any replies. |
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] said this in alt.comp.hardware, at Sun, 04 Jan 2004
09:33:56 GMT, in article . I can prove it. And thus I reply: *** What I want to know is: Has anyone ever heard of this happening? Why would a modem require a better connection than voice? How could a dial tone be broken up with the modem but not on the regular phone? You'd think a dial tone is a dial tone, wouldn't you? Thanks for any replies. My guess would be that you've got humidity inside the phone line cables (since you said it started after a rain). This is no good for data connections, which should be as "clean" as possible, but the voice calls wouldn't care (you can listen to someone if there's a bit of noise). -- Chaos® - posting from Brazil Please ask for e-mail address. |
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